Current work pc must be my school laptop. HP 2710p Tablet, C2D 1,2gHz, 4 gigs of ram, built in Intel graphics HD3100 or something like that.
Dell Precision 390 C2D E6300@1.86GHz 8GB RAM Nvidia Quadro FX3450 160GB HDD Win 7 Pro Works fine with Solidworks 2011 (I'm a design engineer now).
For light office work(word) and constant net surfing: C2D E3200@2.4 2gb RAM Nvidia 8400 GS Win XP This is the replacement of one that had been rattling away for just over ten years! When the boss saw how much quicker and easy it was to start up/run/shut down, he went and replaced the other two in the office with i5-750's + 4Gb RAM...all custom built.
Intel C2D E6550@2.33GHz 4GB RAM Radeon x550 500GB HDD Win XP need to upgrade to w7, but I dread to think about all the configuring - it took me 2 years to work out all the kinks from my current installation. On the other hand my colleague is stuck with P4, the amount of swearing coming from that side of the room is extraordinary .
Since I'm in uni, I'll just run down most of the machines there... We used to have labs outfitted with some older Dell machines. P4 2.4GHz, 1 GB DDR1, low end graphics of unknown make, Win XP Last semester they were all upgraded to brand new Dell Optiplex 980x, mix of tower and SFF cases i5 670 4 GB DDR3 Intel's integrated graphics Pretty strong machines But the dumb part? Even thought the machines came with Win 7 64-bit licences, they chose to roll out XP 32-bit on them due to being too lazy to configure the systems properly Screens are still the same paltry mix of 17" Dell and Phillips TFT screens. Used mostly for VS2005. Yes, we're VERY advanced for a polytech of computer science For do-it-at-home work, it's either my sig rig or my notebook (with XP emulated in virtualbox to run bloody VisualStudio)
22'' I Mac Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz 4 GB SODIMM DDR2 667mhz 500gb HDD OS 10.6 Windows 7 Virtual Machine. Im an IT Technicain...and i disslike Macs : (
The worst part is the network. If the network traffic is quite heavy, it slows down Outlook. When Outlook starts to slow down, it drags the rest of my PC with it because it's such a bloated piece of crap. If I was running the IT systems, we'd all have thin clients hanging off some seriously beefy local servers and gigabit ethernet. Oh, and I wouldn't stick the mail server for South Wales in Peterborough ; I'd stick it in - gasp - South Wales. If I send a mail to my buddy sat next to me, he'll get it in five minutes time - maybe longer if his surname is further down the alphabet than mine. If I send him an email from my personal phone to his personal phone (both using gmail), it arrives within a few seconds.
